Prime Time Crime: Series Missing from Fox's Fall 2011 Schedule

Just a quick follow-up to this morning's post about Fox's crime series upfront for Fall 2011.

In addition to the new and canceled shows, what stands out are a couple of potential series that were once highly regarded but are now noticeably absent.

Last September we learned that Fox had given the go-ahead to develop an adaptation of the "Locke & Key" series of supernatural graphic novels by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. There was some chatter a couple of months ago about the difficulty of getting this project going, and the possibility of converting it to a mini-series as opposed to a weekly series. It seems likely that neither will happen now.

And earlier this year, Fox ordered a pilot for the Ethan Hawke-led action drama Exit Strategy, in which a team of CIA operatives are sent in to extract embedded agents in danger. This series, too, isn't on Fox's fall schedule but we've read here and there that it may be under consideration as a mid-season replacement.